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lasting friendship. As I do not take in the R. S. I will 
with pleasure accept of your present of a copy of your 
Indications of Spring/^ Hoping that your benevolence 
will pardon the unreasonable length of this letter, on which 
I look back with some contrition, I remain, with tru© 
esteem. 
Your most humble servant, 
Gil. White. 
Any farther correspondence will be deemed an honour. 
LETTER II. 
TO EGBERT MARSHAM, ESQUIRE. 
Selborne, Jan. 18th, 1791. 
S your long silence gave me some uneasiness 
lest it should have been occasioned by indis- 
position ; so the sight of your last obliging 
letter afforded me much satisfaction in pro- 
portion. 
I was not a little pleased to find that your friend Lord 
Suffield corroborated the account of the Cuckoo given by 
Mr. Jenner, whose relation of the proceedings of that 
peculiar bird is very curious, new, and extraordinary.^ It 
does not appear from your letter that you endeavoured to 
revive the Swallow, which fell down before your parlour- 
window. I have not yet done with trees, and shall there- 
and published in 1761, will be found alluded to in Letter XII. to Pen- 
nant, p. 44. — En. 
^ Royal Sox3iety's "Transactions," better known perhaps as the 
"Philosophical Transactions." — Ed. 
2 Dr. Jenner's "Observations on the ^N'atural History of the Cuckoo " 
will be found in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1778, pp. 219- 
237.— Ed. 
